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by _frog 15y ago
I think we have to distinguish between a term being ubiquitous and generic. I know it's fairly common for someone in the US to refer to a tissue as a Kleenex but that doesn't mean other tissue brands can market their goods under that same t
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by _frog 15y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't this hurt Google's business rather than protect it? With no legitimate means of buying/renting movies on their Android devices people will likely resort to piracy.
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by _frog 15y ago
Basically everything is Cocoa in Snow Leopard with the glaring exception of iTunes and it's really starting to show, they really need to do a rewrite. Hopefully they don't call it iTunes X like they've done with the Final Cut and Quicktime
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by _frog 15y ago
So is anything from Apple apart from iTunes running on Carbon anymore? I wonder how many more years Apple will continue supporting that framework before they finally drop it.
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by _frog 16y ago
This. A lot of people are coming to Android as a step up from feature phones. In fact a lot of Android phones ship without any way to install third party apps and act as essentially glorified feature phones. I'd love to see the statistics o
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by _frog 16y ago
I can't say I share your dissatisfaction wot the new XCode UI, initially I disliked it but now I have no idea how I ever lived without it. Just give it a chance is all I'm saying.
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by _frog 16y ago
I think the reason that open source software is so often poorly designed is this committee approach where no one person can lead the design team. Strong leadership is extremely important when designing a good UI and I feel a lot of open sou
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by _frog 16y ago
It's just such a grammatically poor phrase and it gives the impression that the entire project lacks polish and thoughtful design.
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by _frog 16y ago
Does anyone else find the tagline "Made of Easy" to be a bit silly and poorly thought out?
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by _frog 16y ago
Wait, are you chpwn by any chance? Because you quite extensively use the slide-behind header trick from his last post on http://chpwn.com/blog/
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by _frog 16y ago
I never thought there were that many highschoolers on Hacker News (year 12 here). Cool to know there's some fellow adolescent hackers out there.
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by _frog 16y ago
Please do, I'd really appreciate it.
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by _frog 16y ago
I think something you have to take into account is that a lot of people are simply buying these android smartphones because they either can't afford the iPhone or their carrier doesn't sell it. Also regarding the price of Android tablets, n
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by _frog 16y ago
It already posts updates to your twitter feed if you sign in with that account and I've heard they'll be adding that feature to standard accounts soon.
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by _frog 16y ago
Seems to be good now, it's showing up as the first result for 'Color' here on the Australian App Store.
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by _frog 16y ago
I hardly see further fragmenting the Android ecosystem as being overly innovative.
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by _frog 16y ago
Amazon is great for that, when I got my Kindle I was perhaps a bit too rough with it. It was the week after I had gotten it as a birthday present and I didn't have a case yet but I wanted to bring it with me for a train trip. I threw it in
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IPods and iPhones banned in the Gates Household(businessinsider.com)
3 points by _frog 16y ago|1 comments
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by _frog 16y ago
Google seems to be going about creating social products in entirely the wrong way. They seem to prefer forcing people on to their platforms (see Buzz in Gmail) rather than making a product that people actually want to use and spend time o
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by _frog 16y ago
Yeah I think I'll just stick with portable speakers, I doubt the sound from them would be too great. They didn't even give a decent demo in the video. On another note, when did Kickstarter stop being US only?
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by _frog 16y ago
On the multi-touch trackpad you can just click with two fingers.
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by _frog 16y ago
I'd really love to see Naughty Dog do a series of articles with this kind of technical depth on making the Jak and Daxter games, or even Uncharted although I can see why they'd want to keep some of the tech private in that case. Naughty Dog
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by _frog 16y ago
The Xoom just looks embarrassingly out of touch with everything that's happening around tablets. Motorola keeps advertising features that the average user doesn't care about whether that's their specs, (currently non-existent) flash support
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by _frog 16y ago
Not as relevant but I saw this video a while back: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j02b8Fuz73A&feature=relat... It's interesting to see a young Steve Jobs perfecting his presentation style.
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by _frog 16y ago
This is part of why I think Steve Jobs is such a great spokesman for Apple as a company. He believes every word coming out of his mouth and that enthusiasm tends to be infectious. Look at any presentations he's given, the iPad 2 launch come
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by _frog 16y ago
For me, visited links are greyed out whilst anything I haven't seen since last visit is black. Are you emptying your cache and history on exit perchance? Here's what I see for reference: http://cl.ly/57jx
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by _frog 16y ago
Can anyone comment on the differences between this and the Xcode 4 GM Seed 2 that I've been using for the past few weeks? A bit of browsing led to noticing that the version reported on the welcome screen shown in the screenshots section of
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by _frog 16y ago
I think at the moment the amount you have to pay for music through iTunes or Amazon's MP3 download service isn't attractive enough to the average users. In the long term as publishers warm to the idea of selling their music digitally these
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by _frog 16y ago
What exactly makes it ugly for you? I'm not arguing against you but I'm interested in your reasons.
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by _frog 16y ago
Second that, I'd really like to try this out.

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